MAJOR FARR: May it please the Tribunal, when the
Tribunal rose yesterday, we were discussing the number of persons who
might be involved in the concentration camp program with which the SS
was concerned. Nothing better illustrates the integrated character of
the whole organization than the concentration camp program.

WVHA, one of the departments of the Supreme Command, handled the
administration and control of that camp program and dealt with the
victims once they were in the camp. They were assisted by the
Death's-Head Units, who furnished the guard personnel for the camps, and
subsequently by the Allgemeine SS, which took over guard duties during
the war.

RSHA played a part in the concentration camp program-the police arm of
the SS  because through it the victims were apprehended and taken
to the camps. Thus the SD appears in the picture, the personal staff,
the first department of the Supreme Command, sort of the top office of
the whole organization, and naturally it had much to do with the work of
all subordinate departments.

Thus when the question is asked how many persons in the SS had
something to do with the concentration camp program, it is a question
which I think it is impossible to answer. You may point out how many
persons were involved in the Death's-Head Units, who originally
furnished the guard details; you might estimate how many persons were in
the Allgemeine SS, but to say just what percentage of the whole
organization was involved in that program, is something which I find
myself unable to do.

I had just pointed out ...

THE PRESIDENT: Can you say that one or another branch of the SS
provided the whole of the staff of the concentration camps?

MAJOR FARR: By the staff, I take it, you mean guards at the camp, the
camp personnel. You cannot do that. For example, the Death's-Head Units
originally started off as being the units which furnished all the guard
personnel. Subsequently, their task was taken over by members of the
Allgemeine SS.